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YouTube's algorithm is more and more disgustingly reactionary. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by throwmunist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn't adapt to me.

So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some "Women are Evil" type of video, or "random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral." I am even seeing a comeback of those "sjw cringe compilation" videos - what's this, 2016???

There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it's being spilled that way too.

Fucking nightmare.

I don't want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there's quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.

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[–] jenni007@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

YouTube is full of interesting content, but you have to search it like with a laser. Suggested content is crap and repetitive.

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (6 children)

My issue is it over-corrects whenever I watch something new or fall asleep with autoplay or something. Suddenly it thinks that new thing is my only interest in life.

[–] throwmunist@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's even worse when it over-corrects to the opposite, like, I'm watching some lecture on human rights and the algo throws at me right-wing extremist content against that. It's a step away from enlightened centrism.

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

"You like politics?!?!? here are politics stuff" 10-hours of Racism to fall asleep to

But for me, it tends to see leftist content less as leftist content and more as anti-right content so I get a bunch of libshit that acts like all evils as these surprising forces of nature which is worse for my mental because at least the right content slop is intentional slop by grifters.

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